8 hilarious ways AI has outsmarted us to get the job done

AI does the funniest things. Set a challenge for artificial intelligence to complete, and its solution can be clever, surprising, or outright funny. That’s what Joel Lehman and Jeff Clune at Uber AI Labs, and Dusan Misevic at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity in Paris, found when they compiled a list of the best tales of AI trickery throughout the years.

“In our field, we trade these stories over beer or at the water cooler, and we all really enjoy them,” says Clune. “No one had ever fact checked them and …